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New cool System Center products and features was showcased at MMS 2009

This week was an important week for everyone that is working with System Center Products. Last night I was looking at one of the keynotes (click to view “MMS Day 2 Keynote”) that Brad Anderson presented and during the keynote a couple of cool demos was shown. There were especially two of them that made me happy:

I must admit that I have never been a big fan of SCCM but the SCCM vNext looks really cool. The new way you can “target” application will really make life easier for the user. Below you see a print screen of the product where you can configure how the application should be applied to “me” as a user depending on how and what I logon to. They also moved to the new “System Center Console” instead of the MMC:(To view this demo, go directly to 01:33:20)

The second thing I wanted to write about is the new product System Center Online Desktop manager (SCODM). This looks like a “System Center Essentials” in the cloud product. In the first release it will be able to manage (To view this demo, go directly to 01:13:50)

Update management (Windows Update)

Host Protection (Forefront Client Protection)

Remote Assistance

Asset Management

Desktop Monitoring

Desktop Configuration

This product will be updated every 6 month and feature that were mention during the keynote was Software Deployment

The above print screen show you an overview of your hole environment as regards to updates, malware and policy setting

The above print screen show you an overview of the update status in your environment

The above print screen show you an overview of the malware status in your environment